https://youtu.be/Jsb8bf0wS9g

Can tell the artist really has a love and passion for that older school style of cartoons <33

It's hit me I've been on this site for more than 12 years (and a few more if you know me from my previous wolf account) and through all the ups and downs, I still have 426 furs who are still watching me and more coming to comment and wish me luck on my contest entry so I wanted to say thank you to all my watchers, listeners and to the amazing artists, entertainers, and goofs who make life so much more interesting then just going to a 9-5 and popping on sports, love you mates <3333333

I didn’t respond to a journal from an ex about a year ago that all but said I was harassing and sending threats through friends without any shred of evidence or receipts. I haven’t made any contact with them and they even threatened legal action.

I didn’t say anything about it but I had a conversation with my brother that made me wanna clear my mind.

They emotionally abused me, lied they were attracted to me and literally told me in my face I was ugly, and broke up with me while I was in a mental hospital so to see them still blaming others for their problems and acting as the ultimate victim, I can’t help but feel karmic justice with how supposed miserable they are.

Good. Does that make me bad? I don’t care, they truly are a despicable person who abandoned me and I learned to move on and take control of my life from their abuse. Why don’t you do the same and stop blaming everyone else and look in the mirror for once?

I learned to love myself and not let others use their own problems to justify how they act. If you know who I’m typing about, don’t interact with them, please. It will only fuel their wild accusations about harassment and if the person I’m writing about is reading this, I can totally agree I want nothing to do with you for the rest of my life and I promise I’ll never speak about you again cause you’re not worth the bad memories or feelings.

Check out my first EP!

https://vince12.bandcamp.com/album/nimbus

Join in for some lo-if and chill music and hangout!

https://twitch.tv/charlieretriever

Going to be uploading my music I've been uploading and sharing on my discord and telegram.

Found a new place for cheaper but still in the same county I am in. Will be having my own room and computer has been fixed so excpect me to be voice chatting and being on Steam more often now along with making music easier now =p

So a few of you already know about some recent traumatic events that have happened to me but in short, I was hospitalized and now am living in a new place away from my family. I want to be more independent from them anyway so I’m seeing this as a positive.

Because of all this, my album release was put to the side but I’m back to editing my tracks down and still looking for album artwork (if any of you know someone who can do artwork for me please respond here or DM me!).

I hope this new year brings good luck and fortune for all of us and that we all stay safe and mentally sound during these hard times. Love and appreciate all my friends and follwers here.

I realized that I'm not really excited about anything coming out this fall, film, game or otherwise. I'm kinda spent on Smash news, Mockingjay is pulling a Harry Potter/Twlight crap by splitting the final book into two movies (can this fad PLZ die?) and everything else looks like fun sequels and stuff. Any of you guys super excited about anything on the horizon?

Sorry it took me so damn long! FInally set up a new one!

https://www.weasyl.com/~charlieretriever

Will slowly start to migrate all my commissioned art and personal music over onto there and we'll see how the whole duel-system goes fom here on out.

#4-Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

For the past couple of titles, I haven't exactly loved a few entries in the fabled series. Well not like is a strong word, more expecting more. The Phantom Hourglass was so hand holdy and easy, I didn't even bother finishing it, something I'd never done to a Zelda game before, and Skyward Sword felt like a retreading of the OoT that didn't have the revamping I thought it needed while having motion controls that where take-it-or-leave-it. This return to classic might seem like a head scratching affair for a series that's only criticism has been its unwillingness to shake up things to its foundation but there's something that always feels fresh about a top-down-zelda to me. From the GBC ones done by Capcom, and the classic Link to the Past, they are great jump-in-and-play styles that require the best puzzles in the series. Wonderful puzzles and a fast pace that kept the game going made this one of the most enjoyable titles to me and it went through in a breeze. Only thing holding it from being higher is that it feels at time its a bit too slavish to A Link to the Past and could've have tried its own thing a bit more but very happy with what I got from it.

#3-Bioshock Infinite

This game is too easy to go into a essay length in explaining the themes it touches on, the plot, story, and twists in the plot. Actually that's probably the main problem from it easily reaching my #1 spot is with how ambitious it got and on the way lessened the more concise, powerful impact that the first Bioshock had. While Bioshock was a laser point parody on Randism, this felt like a huge smorgasbord of American racism, parallel universes, religion, revolutions and the drawbacks of them, it was literally one of the best juggling acts I've seen in awhile. It's just too bad it couldn't stick to topics and leave a more impactful statement. This sounds really negative but that's only because the potential for one of the best games ever are seen here. Some of the finest set-up events, vertical combat, story, themes, it's AAA class across the whole board, just not as focused as I would have liked it to be. It's a monumental game and I can't wait for what Ken Levine comes up with next.

Honorable Mention: Beyond: Two Souls

I seem to always be the cut man for popular games that got kicked around by the majority. Beyond was heckled and booed at for issues I wouldn't completely rule against: yes it should have made a story that was more affected by the player and it played out more like a linear book or movie, some scenes seem disjointed, some of the dialogue was plain hokey at times, but under some of these problems was a game that I saw a huge amount of heart and soul (HAH!) in, characteristics that are solely missing in other AAA games. Rarely do we see the whole lifespan of one character and go through every important moment in their life, usually reserved in long-winded RPGs. Ellen's acting was wonderful only to be supported by an even more superb performance from Willem DaFoe, who fills the typical mad scientist role and fleshes out a character I who feels like he has a legitimate relationship throughout the game. There where 4 scenes where my heart swelled and touched me in its emotions and performances. No, it's not able to keep that level of emotion and tone throughout the game, even some eye rolling scenes at times, but most importantly the story left its mark on me and I was happy I experienced it. I'll keep defending this game until the next big that gets racked in the presses and I'll spend the next months stressing to defend it. Where's my defense attorney's badge!?

6-Splinter Cell:Blacklist

GAMEPLAY! The thing as gamers we say we value the most yet I sadly didn't see this game anywhere! From the main campaign to the co-op to the return of the glorious Spies vs Mercs, this game took over the month I bought it and get showering wonderful moments in its gameplay. Most the story missions have great level layout to give you the chance to play completely stealth and no killing, ranked as Ghost in the game, lethally taking out targets while being silent, Panther, or killing everything in sight like Rambo, Assault, which was the weakest of the three play styles when compared to the fun of keeping out of site and taking out unsuspecting targets. The Spies vs Mercs online play kepted me hooked for hours on end with thoughtful map design that forced a constant ebb and flow between the quick, back stabbing yet weak spies and the slow, but automatic rifle touting mercs. As mercs, your constantly checking ledges and corners for any spies that will instantly kill you with a takedown and as spies your dashing for cover in dread of being caught without cover to a merc who will make swiss cheese out of you with their rifles. It's really an ingenious multiplayer mechanic that made Chaos Theory so well remembered to gamers. With all this great gameplay, its sad that the story and characters feel like a ho-hum episode of 24 with lots of military jibberish and espionage tropes that leave me feeling about as excited as staring at dry paint. Post-9/11 military stories have been a long string sterile, yawning trip to me though a couple moments of the game are note-worthy to make it stand from absolute military trudge like CoD MW2. If it had a honest to god emotional, riveting story, this game would be top 3 easily on my list. Yet for gameplay, this is one game I had unadulterated fun with.

#5-Gone Home

Now for the opposite reason SP:B is on this list, Gone Home is here completely held up by its story, characters and atmosphere with nothing above average point-and-click gameplay. It's very difficult to explain why I loved this game since it relies so much on you experiencing the story and characters through your eyes and being only 3-4 hours long, going into detail would really ruin the game and it's atmosphere completely. Will sadly have to chalk it up along with Journey that its a game you must play for yourself to understand why it made its way on my list. Emotional, touching, scary, enlightening and another sterling case that video games are well on their way to becoming legitimate forms of high art and thought. Only negative I could think was I wished it would have been longer and a few key characters don't get fleshed out as much as I would have liked. Please give this game a try, I guarantee you'll get a strong reaction from it.

Honorable Mention: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Queen

Good. Sweet. Lord. I wanted to love this game so damn much. No, even when I was forcing myself to grind through the dull fighting system, I would not allow myself to stop one second. I really felt heavy hearted when I came away so wanting from this game, especially when some elements of the game lived up to be the stuff of JRPG legends. The graphics are astoundingly beautiful, the music grand and masterful, Drippy (yeah he's feckin' wonderful) and the tender love Oliver has for his mother and his willpower to save her is indeed touching and wonderful. It's such a shame that the game is then weighed down by nice but oatmeal-boring characters except for Drippy, a predictable plot and a battle system that mixes pokemon and ABT into a system that feels clunky, non-rewarding and overall boring. It's a cake that has the finest garnishes, icing and presentation but its filled with unflavored greek yogurt. But I'll be damned if that icing isn't heavenly.

#8-Injustice:Gods Among Us

During the up and down some game genres have had during this gen, fighting games have had a surprising surge with Street Fighter IV starting off the spark and getting continual solid entries like Persona 4 Arena, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and from the makers of my entry, Mortal Kombat. Gamers where immensely pleased Netherrealms where able to take a step back and make a refined, modern Mortal Kombat, a series that had become the butt of jokes for long running series that had run out of ideas, and put out one of the best fighting systems in 2012. With this momentum, they didn't take a break and went all out on their DC crossover, fighter. It has respectable, even exciting story mode that have been unheard of for fighting games but are now forming into a good trend that writers don't need to be lobotomized in order to make a story for a fighting game that I sunk a lot of hours into and enjoyed so much. My only gripes are you still get a tastes of MK in the fighting style and I hope for the sequel, they make the fighting mechanics and animations feel more like Batman doing Batman-like move instead of Batman doing a imitation of Scorpion. Heck of a fun game with a fighting system that makes for endless replay value.

#7-Tomb Raider

Poor Lora. After the monster success of Crystal Dynamics showing of the worn-out series, reboot at E3, amazing everyone with the Uncharted-ish excitement and speed, with the added tension and grit of a M-rated survival game, the game shot up to most critic's most anticipated game and was expected to be GotY material. While TR wasn't able to live up to every expectation, sadly having one note side characters, Lora being too rushed into her Rambo mode and a feeling that punches where pulled like the awkward scene Lora was held down by soldier and semmi-groped here(?), the game did delivery on the most important thing that ironicallt was most feared of by criritcs, its gameplay! (Hear that GTA V, focusing most on gameplay! Sorry, you'll hear a lot of monologue about my disgruntled time with GTA V). I heard a lot of worry from critics that what they saw from demos. this was going to be a game centered around hallways with nothing but QTEs and boring cover shooting. What a great relief that TR's most appealing element is it's lush, big maps you can search around, discover treasure and upgrades, and take out enemies in different ways. The second I finished TR, I wanted to run right back to areas that had greyed out parts I didn't check out and find every treasure. The set pieces where exhilarating and didn't rely much on QTE's. It was a fun game with a likable, strong female character and though it would have been nice to have a more compelling story, it's a great right step for a franchise that, like MK (See I tied those two together!) had been flapping its arms around aimlessly in no direction, now has a promising future for improced writing and compelling gameplay. Kudos Crystal Dynamics.

Honorable Mention: Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Was REALLY hoping this game was going to be high on my list and that I was going to be playing it all year round from the love and praise I heard about the series. Sadly, after the first wave of charm, building your house up, checking friends towns and gathering some wealth, the game becomes repetitive and boring, dying for cool expansions and updates to lengthen the game. Maybe Nintendo will take some cues from PC devs like Blizzard or Valve who know how to keep games going past 6+ with in-depth updates. If so, then this series would have my serious attention. As it stands? A disappointment but I can't deny the month and a half where it had me completely enthralled.

Like the picks? Hate em? Sound off in the comments~

Due to positive, feedback, here's my personal top ten list of games I adored this year. Note that it's the games I personally enjoyed the most this year and not a unbiased, scientific breakdown of Metacritic stats. Sorry if your game isn't on my list but opinions are wonderful things that should be varied!! I'll post two picks and a honorable mention each day.

Before I begin, let me list some games I haven't had a chance to play yet that might have made it on this list (though I think I did a very good job this year =D ).

Fire Emblem: Awakening
Super Mario 3D World
Pokemon XY
Persona 4 Golden
Dragon's Crown
Metal Gear Rising Revegance (don't care if I misspelled, it's a made up work anyway!!

So onward to the top ten!

#10) Assassin's Creed IV

Talk about a nice rebound! The AC series has been huffing and panting since Ubisoft decided to make the series its annual horse in the game market. I think we where all getting worried after we saw the AC: Revelation simply not being able to add anything to the already perfected style from AC:Brotherhood except crappy tower defense and then after reinventing itself drastically, coming up with AC III that became the most mixed bag opinion since Final Fantasy XIII with some gamers loving the wide open fields and exhilarating naval combat while coughing blood from the tedious mission set-up and boring protagonist on the heels of Ezio who was bursting with personality, charm and cunning. While Ubisoft still needs to go back to the drawing and radically change the main missions mechanics which still feel like messy stealth and boring hide-andf-follow games, they wisely tripled-down on the part everyone from the most angered AC fan loved about AC III with the naval combat. Now some might say this isn't fair and that this isn't even AC anymore and simply a huge, fun, free-roaming pirate game in wolf's sheep's clothing with a assassin's cloak and hidden blade...THAT'S COMPLETELY RIGHT! It feels far away from what Ezio's trilogy started and more a standalone, pirate expansion pack but I don't think that takes away anything from how ridiculously fun the game has been for me the last few months. I think of it as a comic book one-shot. Batman as a vampire in a weird, cool story that only lasts 3 issues. It's something that has no baring on the series but it's a fun experimentation with what AC can be. The only problem now is that there's no way of repeating the pirate theme so what does Ubisoft do with the AC series from here? *cough* Watchdogs *cough*

#9) Ace Attorney 5:Dual Destinies

This is a bit of a cheat as I've ONLY completed 2 cases in this for a total of 8 hours and the story could possibly take a turn into crap territory, there's always a possibility for that. BUT, if it continues on the trend its been on, then it definitely deserves to be on my list. If you're a fan of the series, you know why it belongs on my list. If you're not, it's character's you get attached and fall in love with, or the ones who are annoying as hell and make you cheer when you turn the tables on them. It's the intricate puzzles and mind-bending threads of logic that lead to the classic AH-HAH moment you get with a great mystery and it's the sense of journey and accomplishment you get from finally revealing the truth after hours of lies and deceit. It never gets old and I hope the Ace Attorney series goes on as long as the writers come up with funny, smart, exhilarating material.

Honarable Mention: Saint Rows IV for remembering that the most important part of a game is to be accessible and fun when making a open world game. Back to the drawing board GTA V because SR4 schools you when it comes to picking up and having sheer joy and fun from the ridiculous writing that never takes itself seriously and the do-whatever-you-want gameplay that makes it FUN to do whatever you want instead of a chore. The bugs and reusing of Saint Rows III map are the only reasons I'd hold this amazingly fun game off from the top ten. Here's hoping SR rubs off on other devs on not taking yourself so damn seriously and that letting you go crazy in your game should be a option.

Hey everyone! First off, really sorry I've been so quiet on here. Life has been very hectic and with my little free time I've mostly been gaming, jumping on my Skype and occasionally checking my Twitter. No matter how much I think I'm going to get better at time management, it usually seems I set myself up for failure! Plus I've been a little shell-shocked at turning a quarter-century and you start to think of what you've done with your life, how you could have done more, what's your plan, yadda yadda, mortality stuff when you get certain years in your life. Here's a list of topics and goals I've chewed over for way too long into a digestable view so this isn't just a huge, "OMG-LEMME SPILL OUT EVERYTHING IN MY BRAIN" journal.

1. Making a new account on Weasyl

Apparently, there's been a huge drama bomb that set off while I was busy in my own crap in the past couple months. (Drama on FA? Le gasp!) I'm sure some of you know every shocking, juicy moment of this FA emergency but the effect seems to have been a sizabe chunk of users have staged an exodus unto other prominent furry sites like Inkbunny and Weasyl, including some close friends of mine. I've decided to make a new account with the latter site for a couple reasons and most of them have to do with nice upgrades like folders you can make separating your music, art and so forth. This is such a core basic that FA never has seemed worthy of adding and it just makes a chore and time waster to look through any artists on here and get a huge dump of art, sketches, audio logs, music, commissions and none of them dated or put in events. Its ugly and has always gotten under my nerve. I also feel that FA is very centered towards visual artists (as most artist sites are, really) and would like to explore more folks in my line of art on Weasyl. THIS IS NOT A GOODBYE JOURNAL! I have no intention of deleting all my work, putting yellow tape on my page and leaving everything deleted. I'm a firm believer in keeping your past goals/mistakes close to you for them as constant reminders of how much or little you've progressed. I say I want to be able to balance both accounts up but I said that about my DA account and god knows how long its been since I logged on there. In all honesty, I'll be spending the most time on which site I'm going to be interacting the most with friends and who care about my work. I'll probably always end up keeping with here since there are some friends on here I love and who won't ever leave FA.

2. New com

In case you didn't hear, I bought a new desktop so that has been a new, exciting experience to me. I was looking between PS4, X1 and Wii U but there's always been a side in me that wanted to jump into PC gaming. I primarily blame this due to my growing interest in indie games starting from Journey. There's just too many talented developers I'd be missing out if I didn't become a more prominent PC gamer. This doesn't mean I despise console gaming now. A major plus toward pushing me to go PC was how strong a library I've built up for my PS3. I have a least a dozen games I've either stacked up from sales or PS Plus free games that I haven't touched yet. There's simply so many games that I haven't finished yet for my PS3, games I've got astounding deals on Steam bundles, not to mention a rather frightening backlog of Nintendo classics I haven't played yet, that I feel having got a PS4, X1 or Wii U would have been a complete waste and they would have just been sitting there unplayed while I tried to rush through my backlog. I see in maybe in a year or so I might venture into one of the 3 consoles but atm, I have more then enough games that I should give some time and should entertain my time with.

3. Musical Journey and Career

I'm sorry to say but the prospect of trying to make it as a hungry artist has not been boding well to me. I feel it would be selfish of me and would be putting even more pressure on those who support me then what I've already taken. I'm feckin' 25 years old. I feel so bummed that I still can't support myself enough to live on my own yet with the crap money I make. That's why I've decided to go back into my pursuit into a nursing career. It just makes the most sense since it will financially support me on my own and is such a useful skill I could take anywhere with me from California to Florida and land a well paying job in. I'm never discarding my love for creating music but its gotta take a back seat and be a personal passion now. Not to be hammy but I was taught a important lesson about this in a Pixar film (whaaaaaa, dude don't go to children's films for moral guidance!!). But really, in a film I thought was going to be ho-hum, Monister's University had a scene near the end that just hit me in the gut with its honesty MINOR SPOILER I GUESS? It's the realization of one character that the dreams and aspirations they had where simply impossible. Life isn't going to bend at all and that huge passion and love you have simply won't work sometimes and you're going to have to change what you want in life into something more helpful or beneficiary, I'm going to always be making music, but it's not going to be the #1 priority in my life. And before I move on, yes this has a little bit to do with my slow output in music but that's also connected heavily in me switching my files to my new com and setting up my new keyboard which really through off my comfort zone in music making and I'm still looking for a more easier way to write out my midi/score notes so I hope you bear with me hear as I work out the technical aspects, what I should do in finishing up my soundtrack and making new, challenging goals for myself.

4. Top Whatever list??

I was wondering if anyone wanted some sort of top list from me when it came to games or music? Seems like some enjoyed my attempt at a OST list last year that I sadly never finished but apparently some crazy people respect my opinion in soundtracks. This year especially has weight as we saw the doors to last generation of games finally close completely..well...there's still a couple cracks with some beloved games of mine like Lightning Returns and Dark Souls 2 still coming out last gen but I think this is definitely the year where it will end and we'll only be referencing Ps4/X1/Wii U as our current gen. So my thoughts on last gen in terms of games and music? A list to arbitrarily give value to some over others? If you guys want to hear, I'd be happy to do it, and actually finish the damn thing this year!


TL:DR
Trying my best, Making an account on Weasyl BUT NOT LEAVING, wanna be a nurse, deciding what to accomplish with my music, have a new com to look a more pixels and stuff and want me to list what songs made me swoon last gen?

Much love and hope to update in a more weekly basis. Hope to hear and discuss stuff!

Bleh,

That is all.

So how many of you went out in a rush to go out and bye a Ouya? According to sales record, not many. Even worse, it's getting panned for its available line-up of games that are either ports of games from PCs and tablet games or laughable amateur tripe such as this---->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLBaiJFPTbE

I don't wish failure and bankruptcy on the people behind (even though it looks like they were up to shady investments and what they used the 8 million on) but I was very confuzzled behind the concept of the Ouya itself. A strictly indie system? What is all the creative freedom that you can't get from making a game for Steam or PSN? Some of the indie games that have been on Steam like Braid and Limbo are now being adopted as popular classics, leading to many conflicted feelings for hipster gamers (yes we know you liked Minecraft before all the cool kids did).

To me, and putting it bluntly, I think the folks being Ouya saw an opportunity to exploit the rising fame of Kickstarter and used the passion and false promises of a strictly indie system that was a pie-in-the-sky concept for passionately, take-it-to-the-man gamers who wanted a open source box that already existed on the PC. It's why I've been kinda been wary of Kickstarter. It's a place were there are a lot of promises but no show of substance or demos. I think what kickstarter should be used for is for helping a company make a demo for a project to help show to producers were they could get proper backing. Adam Sessler pretty much summed it up constructively and more in-depth----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veyH.....oKDAJSbphFxbrg

The big kicker to me in this whole debacle is I think we have been seeing a steady grow of quirky, out-of-the-box, games that we want to see from indie games but have been attacked and reviled against hardcore gamers because of their system and interface, that being phone/tablet games. Second you bring it up, flashes of Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and other brightly colored, short, shallow time killers pop up and you get hammered for bringing it up in a discussion of consoles and PCs. It's too sad because buried in the freemiums, colorful puzzle games and shovelware, there is a nugget of wonderfully creative indie games sitting in the tablet/phone market.
List of games I'd advise anyone who has access to a tablet or smartphone and change their idea of the app/android games:

Chaos Rings
Osmosis
Year Walk
Horn
League of Evil
Infinity Gene
Clear Vision

These games range from moody, point-an-click adventures, a sniper game, 8-bit platformers and traditional shooters that are hearkening back to more classic styles of games then possibly what consoles or portable systems are doing! Problem is touch controls are still finicky and not helpful to great games that get ported like Bastion or Limbo and hopefully down the line tablet people will think of some kind of controller to play with while keeping for your tablet.

In conclusion, I don't think we needed a system soley for indie games. Smaller budget games had a water shed moment last year when Journey and The Walking Dead, games with the fraction of the budget to AC III or Halo 4, were nabbing GotY awards everywhere away from the AAA studios. Indie games are already being pushed and respected by major companies. Hell, Sony's PS4 is being made to be a huge love-letter to the indie devs and Steam is one giant, loving playground for up and coming devs with the Green light project. At this point, my struggling Vita is a indie haven with a flood of more indie games coming to it then the Ouya so what's the point? Oyua what's your purpose!?

Quick, fire question I wanted to ask folks and frequent commenters on FA:

How do you feel when an artist doesn't respond much to the comments you leave?

Life and work is very busy and this sentiment is echoed on some artist's pages that even warn that you most likely be replied to. Why there is a valid point of time management restricting replies but I wondered does this still dismay watchers from leaving a comment as opposed to someone they know who will frequently engage and reply back with their watchers?

See, short and to the point! =D
Oh also Happy 4th! I'm sure you've seen a million others wishing it to you so I did the whole bait and switch and saved it for the end~

Got the game it was released, so many of you guys seemed to have gotten it and I got poked about it enough so I folded and got it. My first AC game to boot =p
Send me your friend code if you want a neighbor and pears!

Friend code: 5086-1219-8812

I'll confirm and then we can be all neighborly. Probably will be the most used multiplayer game until Pokemon X&Y come out =p

Oh...ALSO E3 IS TOMORROW!!!

Hoping to see more great games for next gen systems and current ones too. Want to see more of that LoZ back to the past 2! What games are you excited for? Infamous Second Son? Smash Bros 4? Call of Duty: Ghost Dog? :3

I had a feeling that the 3rd console curse might rear its head (Sega Saturn, Atari 2600, N64 and PS3 starting off as financial failures with the last two just turning a profit in their last years while the first led to the companies turning into software only) but dear lord I didn't think it would come out of the gate by slipping on a banana peel and into a trash compactor...as a Sony/Nintedo gamer, some would think I'd love this but I really don't. Along with Nintendo's failure with the Wii U, if they don't have some huge games coming this fall I'm worried its going to become like the Dreamcast, PS4 seems to be prime to be on top but I'm worried there will be a slip up, primarily it will be too expensive I think. Just feels like a slow march until most gamers are assimilated to the PC and we all pray to the church of Steam. So yeah, hope Xbox has a good turnaround and not gonna cheer for its misstep...well maybe snicker a little bit. Hey never said I was an angel!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/b.....ebut.html?_r=0

*Reference my icon for my reaction

Because I feel like spazzin =p

I must admit, I was never a superman fan as a kid. I gravitated a lot more to Batman, who like me was a loner and relying on his wit to get out of trouble and X-Men because they were the first team of heroes I got into. Sups always felt dated to me, like one of those old 40's educational programs that told you to never talk back to your parents and to duck under your desk if a nuke landed by you (talk about false advertising!). I just never took the guy seriously and just knew for his iconic symbol and origin story moreso then anything else. Strange thing though, as I've gotten older, I've been growing a stronger fondness and appreciation for the character then as a angsty teen. This might be also in due part for the masterful All-Star Superman comic series done by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely that kinda tore down my apathy for the character and warm up to him.

"With so much power at his disposal, why doesn't he rule over the world instead of protecting and serving it?"

That at the core can be the thing that people love and hate superman is his ability to withstand from abusing his power and come off as a perfect boy scout to his dissenters. Dr. Manhattan is viewed as the more realistic demi-god if he was interacting with our real world and I very much agree with that, Superman is very fantastical with his upholding his ideals and morales. The thing though with comics is everything is blown out of proportions for entertainment affect. Instead of a vigilante who straps a gun on and wears a skii mask to potrole a street, comics have a eccentric billionaire who has flying jets and is a trained ninja/detective/computer genius/rock hating pro. Comics back then had to grab you with something big and outlandish so you couldn't very well make a realistic detective story like you do now. So taking into account overblown perspective, Superman is a king/president/CEO who instead of abusing their power and use their talents for self gain, instead use it to better their fellow man/woman. To do what's better for those you lead and to hold yourself to a code so that others can follow in example. Superman is the living embodiment of what modern man considers to be noble goals and morality. In a sense, he's the modern Jesus/Hercules/Lincoln of our time, the person to look up to and aspire...with flying and superpowers thrown in to have for a fun comic. And in that context, I've found Superman to be a much more important part of the way I view super heroes and comics together.

So happy b-day Sups, thanks for giving millions of people a standard to crawl, stumble, wheez, and hopefully one day walk towards.

Final Fantasy Versus is getting a release date and Earthbound I finally being ported over to America....well since big things come in threes, I'm guessing Last Guardian is being released next year!!...Starcraft Ghost then?

(P.S. hope any of my Boston fur friends and anyone connected to the recent cowardly bomb attack are doing well. Keep your heads up high buds ^^)